I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for a…

At this exquisite vision Tip's old comrades stared in wonder for the space of a full minute, and then every head bent low in honest admiration of the lovely Pr…

And, afterward, when a child was naughty or disobedient, its mother would say: 'You must pray to the good Santa Claus for forgiveness. He does not like naughty…

Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would'st reach! It needs the overflow of heart To gi…

'A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.'

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.