For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Quote by James M Barrie

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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

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

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

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all...

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all...

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be...

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be...

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of...

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of...

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't...

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't...

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

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did...

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did...

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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

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

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.