“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.”

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

“A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.”

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

“It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.”

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”