Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.