They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

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.

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

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.

How good life is when one does something good and just!