In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.