Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.