Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.