If I had learned to read I should not perhaps have stolen the bread. You see, I could not learn to read. When I was at the galleys, I learned. There was a school for convicts.

He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure…

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

It is very unfair to judge of any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation…

We discovered, after a time, that we couldn’t live on love alone; that bread must be earned, and tempers kneaded, and small economies practiced, if two foolish young things were to keep house with any peace; and so we learned to make the trials into lessons, and the lessons into habits, and the habits into a very decent happiness.

I don’t like reformers, and I hope you never try to be one; reformers are apt to forget that people can be led by a little kindness oftener than driven by much scolding, and I like the sort of goodness that makes itself beautiful first, and then others wish to copy it.

Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine. Love has made you weak, and weakness is my road. I enter by the heart, and from there I make a home.

“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”

“I don’t think …” “Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.