Leo Tolstoy

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Not even the Devil can call a woman “Slut” if he is not able to make her fall in love.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Round numbers are always false.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.