"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.”

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

“The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.”

“Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.”

“From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.”

“Everyone should keep someone else's diary.”

“Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!”

“The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.”

“The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself”