No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will….

I only appear to be dead..

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch..

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

Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only o….

Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more..

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers..

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me..

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch..

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do ….

She thought, "He whom I love more than my father or mother, he of whom I am always thinking, and in whose hands I would so willingly trust my lifelon….

A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal desti….

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….

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

In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an elf. He was so tiny that no human eye cou….

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, ….

He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', a….

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power..

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 n….

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes..

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has i….