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

“Charm. It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.”

“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”

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

“Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them”

“For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.”

“After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”