When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

She thought, "He whom I love more than my father or mother, he of whom I am always thinking, and in whose hands I would so willingly trust my lifelong happiness. I dare do anything to win him and to gain an immortal soul.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.