Zitat des Tages von Nikolai Gogol:
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.
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
If you have not first pondered the entire situation of the man whom you wish to help, and if you have not brought with you instructions for him to follow henceforth in leading his life, he will not receive great good from your help.
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
