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

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

We almost always forgive those we understand.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

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