We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.