Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.