The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do muc… - J. M. Barrie

"There ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl." "Ought to be? Isn't there?" "No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

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.