“3031. It is Wit to pick a Lock, and steal a Horse; but it is Wisdom to let it alone.”

“Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day,
When you took a mouse thief and locked him away,
Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one,
A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone.”

“For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen.”

“Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.”

“Wit and wisdom are born with a man.”

“You saw something you were not supposed to see — something few elements have been aware of, let alone witnessed.”

“Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.”

“A batsman given to run-stealing need not open his mouth to gain the reputation of a wit.”

“An epigram is the marriage of wit, and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.”

“Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness…”