Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.

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!

have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.