Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.