VIRTUE

...virtue has never been as respectable as money.
- Innocents Abroad

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
- "Mental Photographs," A Curious Dream, 1872

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue.
- Following the Equator

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

M. de L.'s new French dictionary just issued in Paris defines virtue as "A woman who has only one lover and don't steal."
- A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson