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.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

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

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

Always be kinder than necessary.