Land is valuable because of its fertility and bumper harvest; Talent is also land, but it produces truth instead of food. If you can only breed imagination and fantasy, no matter how great a genius is, it is just sand or salt pond, on which even grass can't grow. -belinsky

I need three things: love, friendship and books. However, how interrelated these three are! Passionate love can enrich the content of books, and books are people's most loyal friends. -Montaigne

Time is the most precious of all wealth. -Dehove Rasto.

The only thing that remains unchanged in the world is the truth that "everything is constantly changing". -Sri Lanka

It is easy to live a bohemian life, but it is difficult to make good friends. -Balzac