“There is no love lost between us.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...
“The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.”
Source: Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings
“There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.”
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.”
“It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…
“As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…
“It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.”
Source: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories
