I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

For the snark was a boojum, you see.

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!