Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!" "He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!