Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.