A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.