You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

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

My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?