Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

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

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

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!

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

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

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.