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!

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.