When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.