Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air. Joseph Jacobs Read Quote
The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches. Joseph Jacobs Read Quote
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. Joseph Jacobs Read Quote
The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found. Joseph Jacobs Read Quote
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels. Joseph Jacobs Read Quote
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer. Joseph Jacobs Read Quote
The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia. Joseph Jacobs Read Quote
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. Joseph Jacobs Read Quote
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. Joseph Jacobs Read Quote