Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

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

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"