To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

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

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.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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.

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

The life of spies is to know, not be known.

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

Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

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