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.

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.

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

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.

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.

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.