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

“You can't pray a lie" Huck Finn”

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

“Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.”

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

“I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.”

“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money.”