And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.