It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

I am afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Obscurity often brings safety.

When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken.