So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.