Mark Twain, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Quotes

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it once – you’ll see.

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog".