“This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.”

“We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head. ”

“You can't pray a lie" Huck Finn”

“The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment. It is as if heaven's gates had swung open and exposed the throne. (Twain on seeing the Jungfrau.)”

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

“Consider well the proportion of things: it is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.”

“A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.”