I don’t want no better book than what your face is.
You can’t pray a lie – I found that out.
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?
The average man don’t like trouble and danger.
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
Stars and shadows ain’t good to see by.
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.
Jim said bees wouldn’t sting idiots; but I didn’t believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn’t sting me.
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
I couldn’t bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn’t think about nothing else.
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?