Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. – Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one. – Edgar Rice Burroughs

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. – Charles Horton Cooley

Better a living dog than a dead lion. – Proverb