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

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.