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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments.… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.” — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“The fair-haired man was one of those people in whose character there is at first sight a certain obstinacy. Before you can open your… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Well, so that's the prosecutor! He lived and lived, and then died! And they will say in the papers that he died to the… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
