She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

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

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.