Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

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