No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

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.

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.