“This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”

“Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.Do you take it I would astonish?Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods?Do I astonish more than they?This hour I tell things in confidence,I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”

“There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell.”

“I tell you piano the things I used to tell you”

“I tell my piano the things I used to tell you”

“I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you’re as clever as you keep telling everyone you are.” “I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared...”