There Are Passions That It Is Not

I Saw That I'd Get Nowhere On The Straight Path, And That To Go Crookedly Was Straighter.

But Wise Is The Man Who Disdains No Character, But With Searching Glance Explores Him To The Root And Cause Of All.

What Are You Laughing At? You Are Laughing At Yourself.

The Longer And More Carefully We Look At A Funny Story, The Sadder It Becomes.

Like All Of Us Sinners, General Betrishchev Was Endowed With Many Virtues And Many Defects. Both The One And The Other Were Scattered Through Him In A Sort Of Picturesque Disorder. Self-sacrifice, Magnanimity In Decisive Moments, Courage, Intelligence--and With All That, A Generous Mixture Of Self-love, Ambition, Vanity, Petty Personal Ticklishness, And A Good Many Of Those Things Which A Man Simply Cannot Do Without.