There is no more innocent occupation in the world than making money.
Nothing is small enough for a creature as small as man.
Nowhere do you feel the futility of human hopes more strongly than in a public library.
No one achieved greatness by imitation.
No one would have anything left to do if they denied all objections from the start.
Nothing promotes modesty like self-importance.
The unhappy are without compassion.
Covenant is a trap for virtue.
Ordinary praise is given on loan, and flattery is given as a gift.
He was so courteous to everyone and in everything that no one was grateful to him for it.
He was stupid in an unprecedented way and that is why many declared him great.
He is as atheist as a dog; in other words, he never thought of such a thing.
The basic quality of man is the ability to face himself.
No genius has yet been suffocated by the rotten breath of critics.
From a man whom you cannot cheer, you cannot expect good deeds.
To feel one's own intellectual superiority gives you such satisfaction that no intelligent man will be found who would give his intelligence for wealth, however great the latter may be.
Patriotism is the scoundrel's last refuge.
Reread your own writing and if you find perfectly written lines, delete them mercilessly.
Anger can be removed by any means, except alcoholism.
Sad but true: I know almost as much now as I did at eighteen.
Writers - take the true greatness of a nation.
The writer is gifted if he can represent the new as something ordinary and the ordinary as something new.
It is bad when a person lacks intelligence; but it's twice as bad when it's soulless.
Usually only weak people marry for love.
Believe me, if a person talks about his misfortunes, then this gives him a certain pleasure - for real pain is experienced in silence.
Just as peace is the goal of war, so entertainment is the ultimate goal of work.
I want to laugh with the wise and dine with the rich.
As long as the author lives, we judge his possibilities by the worst books; and only after he dies - after the best.
The protector is the one who looks with indifference at the drowning person and who gives him a helping hand when he reaches the shore.
Truly principled are the people most devoid of practical sense.