For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.