Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.

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