If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.

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

There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

The morning hour has gold at the mouth.

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral 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.

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.