Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

We're all mad here.

Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.