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.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Because you see 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. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.