Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.