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

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.