What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

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

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!