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

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

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

In 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!"

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?