Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.