Tom Sawyer Abroad

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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

As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always go their own way, which makes everybody forsake them and despise them, and that is perfectly natural. If they was humbler, and listened and tried to learn, it would be better for them.

So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Jim says the same.

He was a good enough sort of cretur, and hadn't no harm in him, and was just a genius, as the papers said, which wasn't his fault.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

It was a new business to me, and I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: “Yes; the little ones does.