“My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”

“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”

“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.”

“I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.”

“Dinosaur remains have been found by humans for millennia and probably helped form the basis for belief in mythical beasts including dragons.”

“… man is the animal that moralizes. Man is also the animal that complains about being one, and says that there is an animal, a beast inside him—that he is brother to dragons. (He is certainly a brother to wolves, and to pandas too, but he is father to dragons, not brother: they, like many gods and devils, are inventions of his.)”

“Be praised, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air, and clouds and storms, and all the weather, through which you give your creatures sustenance.”

“Brothers, my human brothers, force me to believe in eternal life.”

“What strange creatures brothers are!”

“I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.”