Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.