They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

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.

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

At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.