Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. "I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

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.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

All children, except one, grow up.