There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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