I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.