Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.

Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.