Always be kinder than necessary.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

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.

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.

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.