He mastered them by his vitality, the wholesome strength of his nature, his infinite superiority.

He avoided the terrible mistake of the Nihilists by treating them as children to whom education must be given little by little instead of throwing down before them a mass of dangerous knowledge which their minds, unaccustomed to such strong food, are incapable of digesting.
A British coldness of blood damped as it were the Russian quixotism which would desire to see result follow upon action--to see the world make quicker progress than its Creator has decreed.

With very unsatisfactory material Paul was setting in motion a great rock which will roll down into the ages unconnected with his name, clearing a path through a very thick forest of ignorance and tyranny..