"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
"Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away."
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Source: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, Phèdre, III. 6, 1922.
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