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

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.

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.

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

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

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

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

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