...the laws of nature have continually all my life offended me more than anything.

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”

“It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberi…”

“I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and…”

“Listen, nothing's better than being useful. Tell me how, at the present moment,…”