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.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.