We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.