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

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

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

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

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

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.