One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

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.