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

He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak.