"The fox has many tricks, and the hedgehog only one, but that is the best of all." - ARCHILOCHUS (fragment)

"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." - BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Sybil

"Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler

"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool." - GEORGE SAVILE, Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections