I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning, but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered, and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered

If any one of them can explain it I’ll give him sixpence. I don’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it.