“ Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor.... ”
Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.
~ Émile Gaboriau
...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.
Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.
He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project, he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of 'honor amongst thieves.
