I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

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

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

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.