After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

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.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

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

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow