Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.