Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.