Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?
Lewis Carroll'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
Lewis CarrollTo 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.
Lewis CarrollWhat a funny watch!โ she remarked. โIt tells the day of the month, and doesnโt tell what oโclock it is!โ โWhy should it?โ muttered the Hatter. โDoes YOUR watch tell you what year it is?โ โOf course not,โ Alice replied very readily: โbut thatโs because it stays the same year for such a long time together.โ โWhich is just the case with MINE,โ said the Hatter.
Lewis Carroll