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

“it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.”

“What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.”

“David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.”

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”

“But where do you live mostly now?"With the lost boys."Who are they?"They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain."What fun it must be!"Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."Are none of the others girls?"Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”