While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself for his ancestors for his intellectual development a study of the Vedic literature is indeed indispensable.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.