Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. "I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.