Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.