The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
Leo TolstoyThis history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
Leo TolstoyThe Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
Leo TolstoyEverything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
Leo Tolstoy