“Any man over forty is a scoundrel.”
“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”
“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
“I fear you’re correct there. Catherine warns me that he has the look of a scoundrel about him.”“Jack has told me that he’s not going to let his daughter out of the house until she’s forty.”
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”