You can't be that good; you work for me.

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.

Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

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.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!