The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

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