A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.