“I knowed
very well why [the words] wouldn’t come. It was because my heart warn’t right;
it was because I warn’t square; it was because I was playing double.
“That’s just
the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no
consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.
That was my fix exactly.”
“There warn’t
anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on
the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If
you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to: but a hog
is different.”
CharacterHuckleberry Finn
Here are some
more quotes directly from Mark Twain.
“Never argue
with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and
then beat you with experience.”
“Let us live
so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.”
“Keep away from people who try to
belittle your ambitions.
Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.”
Man will do
many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
“Wrinkles
should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
“If you pick
up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
I am an old
man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never
happened.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery
of fear - not absence of fear.”
“Kindness is a language which the deaf
can hear and the blind can see.”
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his
umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute
it begins to rain.”
“To get the
full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which
it is poured.”
“The human
race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so
ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But
when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned
in seven years.”
“Never argue
with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
“When I was younger, I could remember
anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are
decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things
that never happened.”
“Honesty: The
best of all the lost arts.”
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to
government, when it deserves it.”
A person
with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
When your friends begin to flatter you
on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Huckleberry Finn 
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