I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

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

What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell
what o’clock it is!’
‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’
‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’
‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.

Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves