I am the best there ever was!

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

I like well to be in the company of explorers

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.