To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.