Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!