A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
Nikolai GogolThey're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
Nikolai GogolEverywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Nikolai GogolAh, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!
Nikolai Gogol