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

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.