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"...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold."

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About Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral thinker best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His fiction and essays addressed ethics, religion, and social reform. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists in world literature.

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