Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

We are all happy if we but knew it.

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.