If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Pretty thoughts= Pretty actions

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

I am a perfectionist.

After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.

Someone stole my heart. I haven't gotten it back, because I haven't found anyone to steal it back for me.