But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Literature and Dogma, ch.12.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.7,'Of Parents and Children'.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  The Lover's Watch,'Four o'Clock. General Conversation'.

The secret things belong unto the L our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children forever, that we maydoall the words of this law.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDDeuteronomy 29:29.

   I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms139:14^16.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 9:17.

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men,Verily I say unto you,They have their reward.But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 6:2^4.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 6:6^7.

Deep in my soul that tender secret dwells, Lonely and lost to light for evermore, Save when to thine my heart responsive swells, Then trembles into silence as before.

-Rochdale
  The Corsair,'Medora's Song', canto1, stanza14.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test; The world will give thee credit for the rest. Outward be fair, however foul within; Sin if thou wilt, but then in secret sin.

-Churchill, Charles
  Night, l.311^12.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

-Cisneros, Henry
  In US News and World Report,19  Apr.

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.

-Congreve,William
  Tattle to Scandal. Love for Love, act 3, sc.3.

   Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  XLI Poems, no.2,'La Guerre'.

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time looking under the bed for Communists that they haven't had time to look in the bed.

-Foot, Michael Mackintosh
   Attributed comment on the Profumo scandal.

  We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. 339

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'The Secret Sits', complete poem.

Personne ne garde un secret comme un enfant. No one keeps a secret like a child.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.2, bk.7, ch.8.

Un homme est plus fide'  le au secret d'autrui qu'au sien propre; une femme au contraire garde mieux son secret que celui d'autrui. A man keeps another person's secret better than his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her own secrets better than those of others.

-La Bruye'  re,Jean de
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Des femmes', no.58.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize†only be sure always to call it please 'research'.

-Lehrer,Tom (Thomas Andrew)
  'Lobachevski', satirical song.

They live off secrecy†[it] keep the mistakes secret.

-Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
  Of government intelligence agencies. President Kennedy.

   Glaubt es mir!ödas Geheimnis, um die gr o« Þte Fruchtbarkeit und den gr o« Þten Genuss vom Dasein einzuernten, heiÞt: gef a« hrlich leben! For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment isöto live dangerously.

-Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm
  Die fro«  hliche Wissenschaft ( The Gay Science), section 283 (translated by W Kaufmann).