She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.