James M. Barrie

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.