I am who I am and that's who I am

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

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

I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.