What you have stolen can never be yours.

It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's nothing wrong in believing in elves even though their names aren't on the parish register," he said. "It hurts no one, yes and even does you good rather than harm; but to believe in ghosts and ghouls-that I contend is nothing but the remains of popery and hardly fit for a Christian to give even a moment's consideration." He did his utmost to persuade the women to accept his views on these matters.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.