Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

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

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.