Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.