Leaders deal in hope.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.