Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.