"The government is the sole European in Russia."

"Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous."

"Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory."

"I am a great admirer of the Russian people, and I believe they are a great people."

"A true man is one who forgets himself in his passion."