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

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.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

astonishing splashes of colour

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.