“Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.”

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.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

People who don’t think shouldn’t talk.

But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won’t see anything.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you’ll have to run much faster.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

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

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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.

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

He was part of my dream, of course – but then I was part of his dream, too.

Life, what is it but a dream?

If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.