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.

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

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

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.

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.

Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.