You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.