The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.