Lewis Carroll

“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. Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 422”

“Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 421”

“But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust. To a girl who was frightened of traveling by train”

“And at last we've got to the end of this ideal racecourse! Now that you accept A and B and C and D , of course you accept Z .”

“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics”

“I charm in vain; for never again, All keenly as my glance I bend, Will Memory, goddess coy, Embody for my joy Departed days, nor let me gaze On thee, my fairy friend! "To my Child”

“To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author. Inscribed in Mrs. Lorina Liddell's copy of Alice's Adventures Under Ground ; quoted by Edward Wakeling”

“The `Why?' cannot, and need not, be put into words. Those for whom a child's mind is a sealed book, and who see no divinity in a child's smile, would read such words in vain: while for any one that has ever loved one true child, no words are needed. For he will have known the awe that falls on one in the presence of a spirit fresh from GOD's hands, on whom no shadow of sin, and but the outermost fringe of the shadow of sorrow, has yet fallen: he will have felt the bitter contrast between the haunting selfishness that spoils his best deeds and the life that is but an overflowing love”

“You have no mind to be unkind,”

“The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old. Instructions to Sir John Tenniel c.1864; quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood , The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 130”