Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.