“Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been”

“Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,”

“You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.”

“What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.”

“BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN”

“Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe. In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end.”

“A pigeon a day keeps the natives away.”