When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.