This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

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

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

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

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.