If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

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

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.