When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
What ‘jazz’ means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term ‘jazz’ has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man’s soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
But I’m not to be caught with such poor bait! I’m a big fish, I am.
Every new time will give its law.
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
When the life is monotonous, even grief is a welcome event...
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.