“He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.”

“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”

“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”

“Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”

“How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.”

“You know I always liked you," said Fisher, quietly, "but I also respect you, which is not always the same thing. You may possibly guess that I like a good many people I don't respect. Perhaps it is my tragedy, perhaps it is my fault. But you are very different, and I promise you this: that I will never try to keep you as somebody to be liked, at the price of your not being respected.”

“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate.”