Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

Off with their heads!

You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

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.

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

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!