In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.