Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.

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!

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

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.