The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.