In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Love Is Stronger Than Pride

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.