Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

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

I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls.

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.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.