Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

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

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

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.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

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

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.