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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.