"The really carefully guarded secret of the priests of all the religions, which they will never voluntarily relinquish to the world, is that priests are not needed, nor what priests know or what initiates do or what the devout believe—practices and sacraments, anything. The truth is that God inhabits without limit; wherever the real is or the actual does, He is it. Special knowledge of how to get in touch with him is that same knowledge which carries the bee home to its hive each night; who sells that knowledge to the bee? If we have no money, if we can't read or be wise, are we abandoned? Does He abandon the lowly insects because they are virtually no more than reflex machines? Just as truth cannot really be suppressed, at least not forever, it neither can be horded. We are taught day and night, as all living entities are: ceaselessly. God did not begin to govern and inform the cosmos when writing and money were invented."

Here's the scorpion of secrets.  "What's up with all these secrets?  No one knows -- that's the point."  From Salem's 1995 yearbook.

Can the world keep a secret?  From The Judge, 1916.

The profoundest secret: the universal parity of existence.  From John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (referring to Pisanello's "The Vision of St. Eustace").

Here's why mountains are bewitching.  From The Pendulum, A Novel by Cora G. Sadler, 1912.

Carnations are the woman you once knew, only they have learned new secrets.  This revelation is whispered by carnations themselves in Literary Love-letters, and Other Stories by Robert Herrick, 1897.

"A ghost is a walking secret."  From Hood's Magazine, 1846.

"Whisper whisper," from The Fairy Family, 1874.

"'Do you mean'—the rest was whispered in my ear."  From The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green, 1905.

"It is horrid"  From English Illustrated, 1896.