Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

If you want to be happy, be happy.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.