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

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

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

He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.

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

They'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.