To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

You can't be that good; you work for me.

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

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?

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.