“If the sky falls, we shall catch larks./Kdy nebe pad , zjmme skivani.”

“When you go to buy use your eyes not your ears.”

“It is not the thief who is hanged but one who was caught stealing.”

“Do not protect yourself by a fence but rather by your friends.”

“Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.”

“If the sky falls, we shall catch larks./Když nebe padá , zjímáme skřivani.”

“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.”