“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” “You can always take more than nothing.” “Contrariwise,..’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.” “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” “If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.” It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it.

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”

“I don’t much care where –”

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”