“Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?”

“He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.”

“He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you”

“Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride,Within this house thou must not abide.For here do evil things betide.”

“He who is too well off is always longing for something new.”

“Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.”

“In the old times, when it was still of some use to wish for the thing one wanted, there lived a King whose daughters were all handsome, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun himself, who had seen so much, wondered each time he shone over her because of her beauty.”