The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.