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

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.