If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.