Character: Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky

...never has the stupidity is not the kind of the awards, despite the fact that so often deserved it... Because, among other things, the folly, and the highest genius, are equally useful in the destinies of mankind.

Yes, you know, did you know that no Englishman is still possible to live humanity, without Germany, no Russian man is too possible, without science you can, without bread it is possible, one only without beauty it is impossible, for it is nothing to do in the world! The whole secret here, the whole story here! Science itself will not stand for a minute without beauty - do you know about it, laughing, - will appeal to the rudeness, the nail did not invent!

... if you have the guillotine in the foreground and with such enthusiasm, it is only because chopping heads is just easier, and to have an idea of just difficult.

Administrative delight? Don't know what is.
That... Vous savez chez nous... En un mot, put some the latest the nullity of the sale of some crappy tickets on the railway, and this insignificance immediately deems himself entitled to look at you Jupiter, when you go to buy a ticket, pour vous montrer son pouvoir. "Let me say, I will show my power over you..." And that they delight comes to the administration...

- My friends, - he taught us - our nationality, if in fact "born," as they're now say in the Newspapers, is sitting still in school, in German some of the Academy of arts, the German book and repeats its everlasting German lesson, and the German teacher puts her on her knees, when needed. For teachers of German praise; but it is likely that nothing happened and nothing was born, and all is as was before, that is under the protection of God. In my opinion, and would be pretty for Russia, pour notre sainte Russie. Moreover, all these vseslavovich and nationality - all this is too old to be new. Nationality, if you like, has never existed among us except as a club lordly undertaking, and in addition Moscow.

A woman would deceive the all-seeing eye itself. The Lord God created woman, of course, knew what was exposed, but I'm sure she prevented him, and made themselves to create in this form and... with these attributes; otherwise, who wanted to make all that trouble for nothing?

My friends, 'said he,' God cause I need that it's the only creature that can eternally to love...

- What could be more stupid stupid soft?
Evil is a fool.

Oh my friend, marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence. Married life will corrupt me, take away the energy, courage in the cause, children will go, yet, perhaps, not mine, that is, of course, not mine; the wise is not afraid to look into the face of the truth...