Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog".

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.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

The way you think you spend your time and the way you actually spend your time are rarely the same.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.

I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself.