Life, what is it but a dream?

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!