Quotes about Morality
Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.
— Mark Twain
A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.
— Mark Twain
What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!
— Mark Twain
I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.
— Mark Twain
The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.
— Mark Twain
It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
— Mark Twain
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
— Mark Twain
I knowed very well why they 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.
— Mark Twain
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
— Mark Twain
Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.
— Mark Twain
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.
— Mark Twain
Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
— Mark Twain