For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.