We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

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

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.