Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
