All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

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

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.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.