It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.