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

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

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

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