Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

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.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

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

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.