Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

I disclose my mysteries to those who are worthy of my mysteries. (62)

It is true that some of the so-called
secrets are significant, but as a rule they
are so only to those who already
know what the secret is.

There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share with.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy. I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough just to stand before you like a thing, dark and shrewd. I want my will, and I want to be with my will as it moves towards deed; and in those quiet, somehow hesitating times, when something is approaching, I want to be with those who are wise or else alone.

I have grown to love secrecy.

The best place to look for secrets is where no one else is looking. Most people think only in terms of what they’ve been taught; schooling itself aims to impart conventional wisdom. So you might ask: are there any fields that matter but haven’t been standardized and institutionalized

How fain I'd speak to those who know mythought,
And silence keep to those who yet know nought.

:There's much that I want to say, that I, uh, I wish I wasn't privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to because I think that, um—