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

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

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.

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

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

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.