The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

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

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

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.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.