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.

At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.