Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
- Nikolai Gogol Quote

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
- Nikolai Gogol Quote

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
- Nikolai Gogol Quote

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
- Nikolai Gogol Quote

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
- Nikolai Gogol Quote

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
- Nikolai Gogol Quote

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
- Nikolai Gogol Quote

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
- Nikolai Gogol Quote

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
- Nikolai Gogol Quote