"In character he was amiable and virtuous."

"The God, who made earth's iron, would create no slave; therefore he gave the sabre, the sword, and the spear, for man…"

"...the anachronistic conception that Greece and Rome alone should be considered sources of culture for us, and that t…"

"What will this Europe be for the Orient in the future? A band of swindlers and oppressors, without honor, without shame!"

"A keen intellect with powers of clear exposition, joined to the spirited delivery which distinguished his lectures, e…"

"If I have not been able to write well, I have at any rate written truthfully, using as authorities those who are best…"

"Pietism produced some beneficial results. In the subjective bias of the whole movement, however, there lay from the b…"

"Novelty, originality, and creativity have no value if their products do not correspond to truth, to the contrary, the…"

"Еvery intellectual in emigration, without exception, is damaged."

"Ideas can only be met by ideas, and force by force."