“They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”

“Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. ”

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.""Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.”

“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”

“Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family-- the monkey.”

“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”