Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
Anyone who has crossed from the district of Bolkhov into that of Zhizdra will probably have been struck by the sharp difference between the natives of the provinces of Orel and Kaluga.
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.