However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.