An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.