We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.