she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

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