As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.