When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

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.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.