Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

If I were younger, I'd know more.

Two is the beginning of the end.

Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights.