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

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Just always be waiting for me.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.