It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

said lost

In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer t... by Lewis Carroll

In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

knows people way

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

giving inspire long

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. by Lewis Carroll

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

wonderland nice would-be

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin. by Lewis Carroll

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

ifs

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

wonderland morning thinking

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one... by Lewis Carroll

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

white forever long

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today... by Lewis Carroll

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

cooking yesterday food

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

use conversation two

All that matters is what we do for each other. by Lewis Carroll

All that matters is what we do for each other.

matter

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.

use mean book

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

wonderland would-be wise

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. by Lewis Carroll

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

carpe-diem vision memories

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Be... by Lewis Carroll

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

better-late-than-never recycling form

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters. by Lewis Carroll

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

writing animal men

People who don't think shouldn't talk. by Lewis Carroll

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

people thinking

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it. by Lewis Carroll

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

ifs laughing

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

summer children years

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

able mind believe

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then s... by Lewis Carroll

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

philosophical running philosophy