originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

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

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.