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

They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

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.

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.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others