The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.