Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.
One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which it was carried out.
They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don’t know how dangerous ’tis to eat rich damp cake.
Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
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.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
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.