Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy.

The palpable obscure.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.