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

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.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

Always be kinder than necessary.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.