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.

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

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

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.