Oh, the cleverness of me!

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.