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Some – and these are few – present the public with the results of their own work and do not feel obliged to append to it an intimate history of their readings down to a portrait of the pen used by them . The liberal bourgeoisie ( the Cadettes and the Octobrists ) and with them the social-patriots , who are but their subservient vassals , were organized mainly in Semstwo and in municipal units . The country gave him a love of fields , woods and streams which sustained him in tranquility throughout his busy life . How and wherein he was masterly has been well told you , and better still , you all know it without telling . " His efforts were not spasmodic and displayed upon great and exceptional occasions , but uniform and powerful , commanding the attention and carrying with them the conviction of the triers ; and whether the amount involved was large or small , his client had his best efforts and careful preparation . No one knows this fact better than members of this bar who have so often called upon him to furnish them the information that would give them a starting point from which they could find authorities , or unravel the apparently tangled threads of legal decisions . He was a student in other paths of literature and in the arts and sciences , and to him a new book was an inviting , unexplored pathway , which he loved to pursue to the end ; and his sole personal extravagance , if extravagance it can be termed , was the accumulation of books , of which he had a large and valuable collection . Is there any one outside of Italy who ever considered him a socialist ? After he had read these letters , he did not give me any rest , until I promised him that I would publish them in book form . The judges knew and believed this , and so did the triers , and this gave him a power and influence which were astonishing , and while at the bar he was successful in more cases than any other lawyer in the state ever was .