Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

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

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

As winter strips the leaves from around us so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.