“This very slight change had worked a revolution.”

“He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned: he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there.”

“Revolution”

“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions”

“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”