It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.