The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.