Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.