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Always try to be a little kinder than necessary. - [Kindness] Courage is the thing; all goes if courage goes. - [Courage] Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. - [Wives] Fame is rot; daughters are the thing. - [Fame] I'm not young enough to know everything. - [Youth] If it's heaven for climate, it's hell for company. - [Climate] Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - [Work] She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered. - [Dress] The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. - [Diary] The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which. - [Books] Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - [Goodness] We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. - [Necessity] On the bump of green round which the brae twists, at the top of the brae, and within cry of T'nowhead Farm, still stands a one-storey house, whose whitewashed walls, streaked with the discoloration that rain leaves, look yellow then the snow comes. - A Window in Thrums (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It's grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable. - Little Minister (ch. 10) [Comfort] Life is a long lesson in humility. - Little Minister (ch. III) [Life] The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era. - My Lady Nicotine (ch. XIV) [Tobacco] All children, except one, grow up. - Peter Pan [Books (First Lines)] "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." - Peter Pan [Fairies] She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies. . . . . "If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die." - Peter Pan [Fairies] To die will be an awfully big adventure. - Peter Pan [Death] "You see, Wendy, 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." - Peter Pan [Fairies] He'll find a way. - Sentimental Tommy, corp's belief in Tommy and Tommy's belief in himself [Ability] You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone. - What Every Woman Knows [Women]
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