“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs”

“An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity”

“The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected”

“What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith”

“The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed”

“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty”