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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

A thief believes everybody steals.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.