It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature..

I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it ….

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing ….

We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise..

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the las….

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

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.

Travelling expands the mind rarely..

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

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 ….

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….

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….

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes..

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..

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

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….

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

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, ….

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….

I only appear to be dead..