So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know

And how do you know that you're mad?

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.