He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.