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'.

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.

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.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

I wouldn't want to be around anyone that would want me around.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

People drink and do drugs for a reason. Cause it makes them feel good - until it doesn't anymore.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

That which you fear the most will meet you half way.

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will