The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

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.

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.