But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

To travel is to live.

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.