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

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

Women only love those that they don’t know.

Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

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