As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.