Women only love those that they don’t know.

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

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

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

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

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

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