No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.