Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.