They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.