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

Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

Two is the beginning of the end.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.