Danh ngôn của Nikolai Gogol (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
The influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable.