If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him. - Anton Chekhov

Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

Not everyone knows when to be silent and when to go. It not infrequently happens that even diplomatic persons of good worldly breeding fail to observe that their presence is arousing a feeling akin to hatred in their exhausted or busy host, and that this feeling is being concealed with an effort and disguised with a lie.

When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.