Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.