"on this subject i do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. no! no! tell the man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother too moderately extricate her baby from the fire into which it has fallen—but urge me not to use moderation in the cause like the present."

what are the main ideas?

hello, i belive you can. i once answered a question in russian and its still up so i guess you can.

the bundle of the sticks, talks about union and how sometimes people need a different point of view. when the father in this story asked his sons to break the bunch of sticks, they could not, but when they grabbed one stick each, it was easier for them to break, because they worked together.

in hofus the stonecutter shows a simple happy working man, but one day when he delivers a load of stone into the house of a rich man, he wishes to be a rich man as well and so the mountain spirit grants him that wish and many others, until he realizes that even getting all his desires and wishes come true, he just needed to be humble and have genuine reason to live and be a better man each day.