Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

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

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.

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

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

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