No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.

There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradictThe hopes of my youth?

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.