Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

Oh, the cleverness of me!

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.