I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

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