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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893)
I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
Roger Lancelyn Green (1989)
Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Yet still to choose a brat like you,
To haunt a man of forty-two,
Was no great compliment!"
Phantasmagoria (1869)
The candles all grew up to the ceiling, looking something like a bed of rushes with fireworks at the top.
"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
"What is the use of a book", thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
I wonder if that's the reason insects are so fond of flying into candles - because they want to turn into Snap-dragon-flies!
Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
The pictures, with their ruddy light,
Are changed to dust and ashes white,
And I am left alone with night.
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
All in the waning light she stood,
The star of perfect womanhood.
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
Through the Looking Glass (1871)
"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out - bang! - just like a candle!"
Is all our Life, then but a dream
Seen faintly in the goldern gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death — if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
An island-farm — broad seas of corn
Stirred by the wandering breath of morn —
The happy spot where I was born.
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."