Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.