If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.