It had made the man who imparted it superintendent when comparatively young.
The term "mob marriage" for "civil marriage" originated with him, and it ought certainly to be inscribed in the Golden Book above.
He was a fiery zealot, who sought to induce us to share his wrath and scorn when he condemned Bauer, David Strauss, and Lessing.
When discussing the facts of ecclesiastical history, he understood how to rouse us to the utmost, for he was a talented man and a clever speaker, but no word of appeal to the heart, no exhortation to love and peace, ever crossed his lips.
The vacations were the only time which I spent with my mother.

I ceased to think of her in everything I did, as was the case in Keilhau.

But after I had been with her for a while, the charm of her personality again mastered my soul, her love rekindled mine, and I longed to open my whole heart to her and tell her everything which interested me.

She was the only person to whom I read my Poem of the World, as far as it was completed.

She listened with joyful astonishment, and praised several passages which she thought beautiful.