If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

Never let your sense of morals interfere with doing the right thing.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality-and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

To be rewarded for doing good is to rob goodness of any moral quality. It then becomes good business. It pays to be good. Morality is not a commercial enterprise.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Decalogue, n. A series of commandments, ten in number-just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!