...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.