People say already that it is the officer and not the schoolmaster who has made Germany great.

These changes put my thoughts in a ferment.

One has yet to see whether such a society of officers can produce a people, and if its thinkers and teachers could not lead it to a richer cultivation, and its poets to a higher ideal of duty.

I am afraid, my friend, that the higher souls in our new empire will not find this an easy time." "And yet you left your dreaming in India to come home to discomfort," said Wilhelm.
"My longing for Germany never left me all the twenty years I was there.
And then I confess that I secretly reproached myself for going away.

It is comfortable to turn one's back on the Fatherland, and to find more agreeable conditions in a foreign country.