But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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?

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

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

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!