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

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time