The useless men are those who never change with the years.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

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.

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.