I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.