Always be kinder than necessary.

It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

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.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.