The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

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

I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.