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.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

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

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!