"No man is safe who will deliberately go through life without earning his way.

The man who starts with becoming idle ends with becoming vicious.

This doesn't apply to tramps alone.

Any day's newspaper will furnish you with stories of the vicious doings of the idle sons of rich men.

Unless a man has an object in life, and works directly toward it all the time, he is in danger." "I'd hate to believe that every ragged tramp I meet is a criminal," Dave muttered.
"He is, if he remains a tramp long enough," Dick declared with emphasis.