Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.