True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him