"What may not be done by habit?"

"There are strange friendships. The two friends are always ready to fly at one another, and go on like that all their …"

"Nationalism has never existed among us except as a distraction for gentlemen's clubs, and Moscow ones at that."

"Stepan Trofimovitch succeeded in reaching the deepest chords in his pupil's heart, and had aroused in him a first vag…"

"Russian Atheism has never gone further than making a joke."

"you know real genuine sorrow will sometimes make even a phenomenally frivolous, unstable man solid and stoical; for a…"

"My dear, the real truth is always improbable, do you know that? To make truth sound probable you must always mix in s…"

"(French Cleverness)If you have the guillotine in the foreground of your programme and are so enthusiastic about it to…"

"When all mankind attains happiness then there will be no more time, for there'll be no need of it"

"There is no more better dodge than one's own character, because no one believes in it."