You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.