Oh, the cleverness of me!

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

Never is an awfully long time.

Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.