The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
Hannah More
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton
For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature.
Robert Seymour Bridges
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens
The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself, but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of a hit-and-run.
Branch Rickey
The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
Jerry Tarkanian
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
Charlotte Bronte
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Huxley, Aldous
And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know.
Jean Baudrillard
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman