It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.