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

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.