Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Searching of thy wound, I have by hard adventure found my own. As You Like It, ii. 4.

Second thoughts, they say, are best. Dryden.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell a man at once and straightforward the purpose of any object, he fancies there's nothing in it. Goethe.

Secrecy is best taught by commencing with ourselves. Chamfort.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. Jeremy 5 Taylor.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Carlyle.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Quoted by Colton.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the desert, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, and a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. Colton.

Secret et hardi—Secret and bold. M.

Secreta hæc murmura vulgi—Those secret whisperings 10 of the populace. Juv.