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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.

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

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

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

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

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.