Blessed is he who has been young in his youth

In your dark workshop, let the sun shine on other men! Even our dull life has its own pride, its own happiness!

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own."

"For myself, I detest the fellow, and think him a charlatan. I am certain that, in spite of his frogs, he is making no real progress in physics."

Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone.

"Naturally," observed Nikolai Petrovich, "you were born here, so everything is bound to strike you with a special —""Really, Daddy, it makes absolutely no difference where a person is born.""Still —""No, it makes no difference at all."

Each of us is guilty by the fact that he lives.