"It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits… - Lewis Carroll

Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.'
What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.