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.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

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

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?