Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
Max MullerEvery life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.
Max MullerI 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.
Max MullerUniversities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work.
Max Muller