There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

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

"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.