What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.