First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. 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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.