Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.
Leo TolstoyThe kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
Leo TolstoyToday, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.
Leo TolstoyFor a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
Leo Tolstoy