Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.