The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
Nikolai GogolIn the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!"
Nikolai GogolCountless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
Nikolai GogolIt's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Nikolai Gogol