Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.