“There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.”

“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?”

“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.”

“Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.”

“There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.”

“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”

“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.”