Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of meaning which stretches not only forward in the book but stems from before in the book.

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.