An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

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.

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!

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.

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