"The fate of all founders of moral and religious schools did not escape Tolstoy. He had three types of disciples: thos…"

"“Leo Nicolayevich, what is madness?” I asked him … The reply followed. “It is selfishness,” he explained, “the narrow…"

"Nature is like a woman worthy of being placed on a pedestal. In order fully to understand and appreciate her, it is n…"

"Persistent and undiscerning almost to the point of criminality as far as resources were concerned, this woman [Sophia…"

"A genius, an eighty-two year-old thinker and author, loved and respected by the whole world, having to flee like a cr…"

"During this summer [of 1906] the strain between Father and Mother grew deeper. … A young Tolstoyan by the name of Leb…"

"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."

"I desire, if by any possibility I should become a priest, to be a missionary, and if I am a missionary to be a martyr."

"Persecution is upon us; it will be terrible; we will pass through torrents of blood."

"France must have the blood of the pure to raise her again; which one of us indeed, is worthy to offer his life, and w…"