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

“I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.”

“He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.”

“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

“The rivalry of the European states in constantly increasing their forces has reduced them to the necessity of having recourse to universal military service, since by that means the greatest possible number of soldiers is obtained at the least possible expense. Germany first hit on this device. And directly one state adopted it the others were obliged to do the same. And by this means all citizens are under arms to support the iniquities practiced upon them; all citizens have become their ownoppressors.”

“Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”

“Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change. ”