He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

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.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.