somethings can only be seen in the shadows

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.