"Science seeks to explain everything—but maybe we don't want everything explained. We don't want all the magic to go o…"

"Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Troop…"

"It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there…"

"When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, whic…"

"Do you believe in fairies? If you believe clap your hands."

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping abo…"

"Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead."

"FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was noctur…"

"This is not the considered dogma of schoolmen or of sages in council, but the whirring utterance of a poet, and it is…"

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of i…"