Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.