You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

Things are never as bad as they seem.

It's not time to worry yet

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.