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.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

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.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.