Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.
Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
Literature is my legal wife and medicine my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first, she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.