It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.

Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.