It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

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

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.