"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me"
Freedom
"All right, then, I'll go to hell"
Courage
"It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things"
Truth
"I never wanted to go much before"
Adventure
"I don't take no stock in dead people"
Wisdom
"I liked the old ways best"
Nature
"We said there was no home like a raft"
Freedom
"It's lovely to live on a raft"
Happiness
"I felt so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead"
Fear
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another"
Philosophy
"I ain't a-going to tell"
"It don't make no difference how foolish it is, it's the right thing to do"
Justice
"I never felt easy till the raft was safely hid in a thick willow thicket across the water"
Peace
"If people would leave me alone I would be happier"
Solitude
"I felt so ornery and low-down"
"There ain't nothing more to write about"
Literature
"Kings is mostly rapscallions"
Wisdom
"I've always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do"
"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it."
Freedom
"All right, then, I'll go to hell."
Courage
"The widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me."
Life
"A body that don't know right from wrong ain't got no conscience."
Wisdom
"I was powerful glad to get away from the widow's."
Freedom
"It was a dismal thing to do, but I was fixed so I had to do it."
Truth
"We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all."
Happiness
"Kings is mostly rapscallions."
Philosophy
"But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory."
Adventure
"I can't understand the difference between good and evil."
Knowledge
"I never wanted to hurt anybody."
Kindness
"I felt so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead."