You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Countless 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.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

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