Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

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

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

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 of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

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.

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