Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

I like well to be in the company of explorers