Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other - Anton Chekhov

One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.