It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

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

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.