What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.