Anton Chekhov

People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.  

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.