A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

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.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.