When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

burning with curiosity

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.