“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.”

“What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”

“Certainly. Of course. That’s part of it. And always coming to school or when we’re going home, you’re to walk with me, when there ain’t anybody looking – and you choose me and I choose you at parties, because that’s the way you do when you’re engaged.”

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”

“Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.”

“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.”