If some people hadn't felt obliged to repeat what is untrue simply because they had at one point maintained it, they would have turned into quite dif… - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings with which I then set foot in Emmendingen.

Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces!
Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?
All things are alive in your sacred walls
Eternal Rome, it's only for me all is still.