Secrecy (n.) is the leper's ointment that turns the disease inward so the priest pronounces one clean — while one's breath infects others; Manasseh runs jubilant to the city to breathe poison on all.
Secrecy (n.) is the reflective lover's demand: his love must have no witnesses except those who cannot see — not even God may know of it.
Secrecy (n.) is the death of love within marriage, whose life-principle is open-heartedness — publicity on the largest conceivable scale.
Secrecy (n.) is a contradiction when there is nothing in its depository; with nothing but amorous fudge in it, a childish prank.
Secrecy (n.) is a trap: the man who profits by being secretive always loses by revealing himself.
Secrecy (n.) generally grounds in a feeling of inferiority — the wish to add a cubit to one's stature.