Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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!