When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

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.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?