Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

We're asleep until we love.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

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

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.