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.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.