At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?
Leo TolstoyThe chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
Leo TolstoyThe more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo TolstoyArt begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
Leo Tolstoy