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

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

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.

A human life is a story told by God.

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

Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.