Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
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 tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.
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 at the stake.
Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.
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 it--he knew better how to use his money than that.
Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!
But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.
Just living is not enough, " said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.