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.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

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.

asleep to rummage in their minds

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.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.