“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”

“Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.”

“It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.”

“Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.”

“It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn”

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”