Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.

Service is providing what's wanted, not what I'd like to give.

Anger is so constructive.

...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.