How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

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

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!