I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

Boy, why are you crying?

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls.