Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
Leo TolstoyThis history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
Leo TolstoyAll men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.
Leo TolstoyHow interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.
Leo Tolstoy