The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
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.
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.