Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done. - Anton Chekhov

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

"There is nothing new in art except talent."

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."