But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

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.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.