So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

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.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!