Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

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

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

As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

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