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.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

Just always be waiting for me.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

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.