The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.