The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

"Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind."

"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."

"What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be."

"He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely."