Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

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.