A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.