As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.