If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".