Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was an aristocrat and artillery officer who wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, then underwent a religious crisis that led him to renounce his property, his copyrights and most of the fiction that made him famous. He argued for Christian anarchism and non-violence, corresponded with a young Gandhi, and died at eighty-two in a railway station after leaving home. His novels are quoted for their psychology; the late essays for the uncompromising ethics.