Often, unhappiness is an instrument through which God shapes us more beautifully.
There is no stronger winner than the one who has managed to defeat himself.
No person who has done a worthy deed has ever received less reward than he gave.
No one can tell whether he is poor or rich by looking in the book; its income and expenses. The heart makes a man rich. Wealth is not determined by what a man has, but by how he is.
The song sung by the mother, in the cradle, accompanies the man all his life, until death.
Easily acquired victories are of little value. We can only be proud of those that are the result of a hard struggle.
Supporting a man in trouble is often as important as switching a railway needle in time: only an inch stands between catastrophe and smooth and safe travel.
Apathy and laziness are a veritable freezing of body and soul.
Without deep moral feeling, man can have neither love nor honesty - none of what makes a real man.
Without health, happiness is impossible.
Without the aspiration to infinity there is no life, no development, no progress.
Without passions and contradictions there is neither life nor poetry. If in these passions and contradictions there is wisdom and humanity, then their effects also lead man to his goal.
There is no activity without a purpose, no purpose without interests, no life without activity.
The source of interests, purposes and activity is the substance of social life.
Good is he who, being dissatisfied with the present reality, keeps in his soul an ideal of a better existence, who lives and breathes with only one thought - that of contributing, according to the means given to him by nature, to the realization of this ideal on earth...
Struggle is a condition of life: life ceases when the struggle ends.
Marriage is the reality of love. Only a fully mature soul can truly love, and in this case love sees in marriage its highest reward, and in the brightness of the crown it does not weaken, but unfolds its fragrant flower even wider, as in the rays of the sun...
In the important affairs of life you must always hurry as if everything would perish because of a lost minute.
In art, everything that is untrue in reality appears as a lie and demonstrates not talent but lack of grace.
In the immediate life of mankind we see the aspiration to rational knowledge, the aspiration to make the immediate conscious at the same time, for the full triumph of rationality consists in the harmonious fusion of the immediate with the conscious.
Inspiration is not the exclusive property of an artist: without it the scientist will not succeed much, without it even the craftsman will not do much, because inspiration is everywhere, in everything, in every activity.
The greatest treasure is a good library.
Believing and not knowing - this still means something to a man; but knowing and not believing - this means absolutely nothing.
To see and respect a woman's personality is not only a necessary, but even an obligatory condition of the love of the decent man of our time.
To see a beautifully published book withering is as unpleasant as to see a man empty inside but enjoying all the material goods of life.
Education is a great thing: it decides man's destiny.
To educate is not only to nurse and nurse, but also to direct the heart and the mind - does not this require the mother to have character, skill and access to all human interests?
Everything is good and wonderful in harmony, in accordance with itself. Unnaturally and prematurely developed children are moral monsters. Any precocious maturity is like a corruption of childhood.
Every noble personality is deeply aware of his blood ties to the motherland.
Any extreme is a sister to bordering.