The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

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

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

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.

In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

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.