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

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

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

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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

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

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