C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Obscurity
The palpable obscure.
Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity.
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
The swallowing gulf of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion.
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one; and who would not rather have been the penitent thief than Pilate?