fables quotes

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.