He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.