When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.