You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.