It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.