A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.