There's a way out of every situation.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

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.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.