#excerpts (I will never be consistent, so I won't put the number in front)
"To such meanness, pettiness, ugliness could a man thus descend! He could have transformed himself like this! Is all of this perhaps believable? Everything is believable, anything can happen to man. The young man who today is full of passions would recoil in horror if shown his portrait as an old man. Carry with you along your path, as you exit the sweet years of youth and enter the severe age of manhood that hardens, carry with you all the movements of the human soul, do not leave them by the wayside: later you will not be able to pick them up again!"
Nikolaj Vasil'evič Gogol', Dead Souls