Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

You can do better than this.” The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be “We can . . . and we’ve got to . . . do better than this.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.