The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

True love doesn't grow on you, feed on you, drain you and spoil your heart. It nourishes, waters the soul and intensifies in absenses long and short.

Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not -- and decides to take offence.

Men are never brave, are they?

Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

The Warrior remembers the past.

They hit you with a knife, you find a gun

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.