We are all failures'at least, all the best of us are. Rectorial address, May 3, 1922, St. Andrew's University, Scotland.

More from J.M. Barrie

• God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
• I am not young enough to know everything.
• It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
• I write plays for people who wouldn’t be seen dead in the theatre.
• Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
• One’s religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.