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."

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

asleep to rummage in their minds

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.