Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.
Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not. . . Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.
