You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.