Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.