At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

If you want to be happy, just be.

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid