It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it once – you’ll see.

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest

Begin to see the violence around you

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.