Alexander Herzen

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. ”

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. ”

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. ”

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! ”