I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown

Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

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