Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to…