We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.