Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

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.