What do others say about Tom Sawyer? 3 quotes and 3 feelings

"I ain’t doing my duty by that boy, and that’s the Lord’s truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a-laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own dead sister’s boy, poor thing, and I ain’t got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks."

She feels guilt over being to hard on Tom.

"Tom was a glittering hero once more. There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging." Chapter 24,

Pride of Townspeople

"He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though--and loathed him." Tom.................... on himself (Chapter 1)