“A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.”

“No rose without a thorn.”

“He who can lick can bite.”

“The price spoils the pleasure.”

“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”

“Between two stools one sits on the ground.”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”