By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.
Leo TolstoyWe walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
Leo TolstoyThe magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.
Leo Tolstoy