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.

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.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

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.

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

Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will.

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.