Tremendous Trifles

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the…

Can you not see, I said, that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul i…