astonishing splashes of colour

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

asleep to rummage in their minds