"The widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me."
Family
"I don't take no stock in dead people."
Philosophy
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
Kindness
"I felt bad and low-down, and dirty."
Truth
"Providence don't give no hints."
Faith
"It's lovely to live on a raft."
Happiness
"I'll go along with you."
Friendship
"Sometimes I wish I was dead."
Hope
"That's what the book says, anyway."
Knowledge
"I took the canoe and went ashore."
Adventure
"I never learned nothing in school."
Education
"There wasn't nobody hurt this time."
"I felt powerful free and easy and comfortable."
Peace
"I would rather be anywhere than in that town."
Freedom
"We hadn't had nothing to eat in two days."
Perseverance
"That's just the way things go."
Philosophy
"I couldn't ever feel right again."
"The best time was floating down the river."
Happiness
"People is always doing wrong."
Wisdom
"I warn't ever coming back."
"That was a real fine way to spend the time."
Humor
"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
"I didn't want to go to school much before, but I reckon I got to now."
Education
"There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
Truth
"It was kind of lazy and jointed and comfortable all down my back."
Peace
"We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all."
"I would come handy one day."
Hope
"A nigger trader ain't nothing to a thief."