For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

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

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".