“Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something more.”

“There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.”

“Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.”

“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white, and found it hard to be patient with things that struck him as foolishness.”

“I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.”

“More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.”

“Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.”