What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let them label you as they may.

I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.