One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

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.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.