If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.