Give Me An Honest Laugher.

It Is More Difficult To Look Upon Victory Than Upon Battle.

Silence, Maiden; Thy Tongue Outruns Thy Discretion.

All Men Who Have Turned Out Worth Anything Have Had The Chief Hand In Their Own Education.

And Children Know, Instinctive Taught, The Friend And Foe.

Independently Of The Curious Circumstance That Such Tales Should Be Found Existing In Very Different Countries And Languages, Which Augurs A Greater Poverty Of Human Invention Than We Would Have Expected, There Is Also A Sort Of Wild Fairy Interest In Them, Which Makes Me Think Them Fully Better Adapted To Awaken The Imagination And Soften The Heart Of Childhood Than The Good-boy Stories Which Have Been In Later Years Composed For Them.