To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.