I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.