By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.