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

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

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.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

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