A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
Greta Garbo

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Alphonse de Lamartine

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
Max Jacob

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard