"The people may eat grass": hasty words, which fly abroad irrevocable—and will send back tidings. — Thomas Carlyle

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, — with the answer, No effects.

History a distillation of Rumour.