When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction

The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion

Earn a character first if you can. And if you can't, assume one.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation

Criminals are less likely to steal marked tools that might raise eyebrows and suspicion.

Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the magician with the fiddle-bow in his hand, who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him - why, certainly he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair - but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash also.