War and Peace quotes

Well, prince, so Genoa and Lucca have become mere family estates of the Buonapartes.

How is it I did not see that lofty sky before? How happy I am to have recognized it at last! Yes, all is vanity, all is falsehood, except that infinite heaven.

Yes, the oak is right, a thousand times right,

Where, how, and when, from the Russian air she breathed, had this young countess, educated by an émigrée French governess, imbibed that spirit and obtained that manner, which the pas de châle might long ago have effaced?

It seemed to Pierre that this comet fully responded to all that was going on in his own tender and uplifted soul now blossoming into a new life.