Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.