What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

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

A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

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