If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.