Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.

I like well to be in the company of explorers

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.