They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.