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

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

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

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

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.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.