We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.