The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDistance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe