It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

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.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.