Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more. - Hans Christian Andersen
But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power? - Hans Christian Andersen
Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two; and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about. - Hans Christian Andersen
Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me. - Hans Christian Andersen
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth. - Hans Christian Andersen
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. - Hans Christian Andersen
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory. - Hans Christian Andersen
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 his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal. - Hans Christian Andersen
He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him. - Hans Christian Andersen
I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch. - Hans Christian Andersen
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 could see him. He had a snug little room behind every petal of the rose. He was as well made and as perfect as any human child, and he had wings reaching from his shoulders to his feet. Oh, what a delicious scent there was in his room, and how lovely and transparent the walls were, for they were palest pink, rose petals. - Hans Christian Andersen
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! - Hans Christian Andersen
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. - Hans Christian Andersen
Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen
