The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it…
A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The…