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 laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

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

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.