Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.