Mark Twain Quotes

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

People have goodness in their hearts.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.

The church must always show compassion, always.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being …

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

The noblest art is that of making others happy.

The most vital part of your humanity is the love you have for others. To deny it is to deny your life.

My belief is that people are innately good and innately do want to help their fellow man.

We're a compassionate nation.

Love is the substance of human survival.