Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

...chance may do anything.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

Love life more than the meaning of it?

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.