Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

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.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

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.