The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only...

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ says the White Queen to Alice.

Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.