Where is the value in possessing a virtue but by the opportunities it gives for neglecting to exercise it - not arrogantly and consciously, but tranquilly and with an innocent untroubled mind?Mark Twain
It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.Mark Twain
What are bad habits but good qualities perverted?Mark Twain
Man is the only animal who can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.Mark Twain
Violence is, and always has been, the companion of liberty.Mark Twain
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honorMark Twain
You have been an amusing fool, as you always are and always will beMark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.Mark Twain
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.Mark Twain
Singing hymns and casting up accounts both come under the head of spiritual exercises in some of the books, but I doubt it, myself.Mark Twain