Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.