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.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

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.