Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

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

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!