A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

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.

It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.