Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!
Leo TolstoyMany families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.
Leo TolstoyA writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
Leo TolstoyBut if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.
Leo Tolstoy