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

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

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.

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

 

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe! If you believe, clap your hands!

 

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

 

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

 

Every time a child says ‘I don’t believe in fairies’ there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.