Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

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

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

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

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.