When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.

I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls.