Fairy Tales Told for Children: Third Booklet quotes

I would give all my three hundred years to be a human being for one day, and afterwards to have a share in the heavenly kingdom.

We may live here for three hundred years, but when we cease to exist, we become mere foam on the water and do not have so much as a grave among our dear ones.

It is as light as a spider's web. One might think one had nothing on, but that is the very beauty of it!

But he has got nothing on

In the following year a new volume came out, and soon after that a third, in which the longest story, "The Little Mermaid," was my own invention.