It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy