Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.
A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.