There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

I am who I am and that's who I am

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.