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.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.