These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

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

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.