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.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!

One can't believe impossible things.