History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.