Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

The Russian soul is a dark place.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.