"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

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.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

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

She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!