They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.

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

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.

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.