God is the same everywhere.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

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.