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.

Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. "Perhaps he is ill," Michael said. "You know he is never ill." Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.