To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.