All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

God gave the day, God gave the strength.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

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

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.