All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.