Mikhail Lermontov

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.