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.

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…