But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
Nikolai GogolBut youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: โThis is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
Nikolai GogolThere 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.
Nikolai GogolI 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.
Nikolai Gogol