What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

Everything human is pathetic

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.