The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

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

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.