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

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

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.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.