It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witnes….

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to ….

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books..

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time..

The sea has neither meaning nor pity..

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards..

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such ….

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a ma….

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this id….

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle..

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think..

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in ….

we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't und….

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those me….

I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if….

Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, ….

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it.

Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes..

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from whi….

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself..

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions..