Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

How can we expect another to guard our secret if we have not been able to guard it ourselves?

Nothing weighs more than a secret.

Another person's secret is like another person's money, you are not so careful with it as you are of your own.

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

Many a deep secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that others slave.

Would you know secrets? Look for them in grief or pleasure.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

A secret is something I tell to only one person at a time.

As soon as you cannot keep anything from a woman, you love her.