Here is the great financier, who has embezzled a million and a quarter, not because he needed money, but because people looked up to him.

Therefore, he must build great mansions, submarine pleasure courts and must lay out huge estates--because he wished that he should be thought well of.
Mansus sniffed again.
"What about the man who half murders his wife, does he do that to be well thought of ?" he asked, with a tinge of sarcasm.
T.X.looked at him pityingly.
"The low-brow who beats his wife, my poor Mansus," he said, "does so because she doesn't think well of him.

That is our ruling passion, our national characteristic, the primary cause of most crimes, big or little.

That is why Kara is a bad criminal and will, as I say, end his life very violently." He took down his glossy silk hat from the peg and slipped into his overcoat.
"I am going down to see my friend Kara," he said.

"I have a feeling that I should like to talk with him.