And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed