Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?