In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they als…

- Karl Philipp Moritz

I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I ha…

- Karl Philipp Moritz

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loa…

- Karl Philipp Moritz

The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, t…

- Karl Philipp Moritz

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a gre…

- Karl Philipp Moritz

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and …

- Karl Philipp Moritz

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else…

- Karl Philipp Moritz

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of …

- Karl Philipp Moritz

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

- Karl Philipp Moritz