“Our profession is dreadful, writing corrupts the soul.”

“Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one’s life.”

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”

“By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed."Alexis Alexandrovich”

“There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.”

“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”

“The soul of man is the lamp of God,’ says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when God’s light is not burning in his soul. But when it burns (and it only burns in souls enlightened by religion), man becomes the most powerful creature in the world. And it cannot be otherwise, for what then works in him is not his own strength, but the strength of God.”