That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Things are always better in the morning.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.