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….

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near..

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy t….

I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!.

Where words fail, music speaks..

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

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale..

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead..

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all..

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned….

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them..

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things..

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them..

And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; ….

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more..

I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold..

She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart..

Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!.

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

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 ….