"While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit."

"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration."

"“If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”"

"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."

"The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today."

"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."

"A good jolly is worth what you pay for it."

"Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers."