One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

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.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?