Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

- Nikolai Gogol

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

- Nikolai Gogol

I am who I am and that's who I am

- Nikolai Gogol

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

- Nikolai Gogol

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

- Nikolai Gogol

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

- Nikolai Gogol

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

- Nikolai Gogol

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

- Nikolai Gogol

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

- Nikolai Gogol