“Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know.”

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

“Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.”

“Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least good whilst it is thus concealed. The concealment must be removed so that the good may be able freely to appear in its own brightness. For example, the mountain, the sand, the earth, or the stone in which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals.”

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”

“My own heart would have concealed it from me, for failure to love is almost like murder and I would have been incapable of inflicting such a blow on anyone.”

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own.”

“A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.”

“She calls it marriage now; such name
She chooses to conceal her shame.”

“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”