"It wouldn't be right to do it."
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."Wisdom
"I was most ruined for a boy, we had to adhere so close to his learning."Education
"You can't pray a lie."Truth
"Goodness had nothing to do with it."Wisdom
"There ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it."Literature
"Sometimes I lifted my head out and took a look around."Adventure
"I didn't take no stock in dead people."Life
"He was the best friend I ever had."Friendship
"I couldn't ever feel easy in my mind."Fear
"We went drifting down the big river."Adventure
"Nobody can tell what you are going to do."Philosophy
"If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him."
"We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us."Freedom
"It was a powerful fine sight to see."Beauty
"There's many a time I've kneeled down by the raft at night when everybody else was asleep, and prayed."Faith
"That warn't my idea of progress."Change
"The poor ain't got no luck."Wisdom
"I felt bad and low because I known very well I had done wrong."
"It was the most elegant kind of words."Art
"She was just full of the devil."Humor
"I reckoned he was dead sure."Wisdom
"The raft was a world all by itself."Imagination
"I had to think considerable before I settled down to my studies."Education
"He was the kindest old soul that ever was."Kindness
"It ain't no matter where you stand, when your time comes."Philosophy
"A man's got to have principles."Wisdom
"I couldn't seem to strike no places that was right."
"We was free and satisfied."Happiness
"I don't take no stock in dead people."Imagination