Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.