If you are a public man, and if your name is much in men's mouths, then the place you hold, the prices and the praises you get, do not give you one-tenth of the pleasure that they give a thousand other men pain.

Men you never heard of, and who would not know you if they met you, gnaw their hearts at the mere mention of your name.

Desire, then, to be unknown, as A Kempis says.

O teach me to love to be concealed, prays Jeremy Taylor.

Be ambitious to be unknown, Archbishop Leighton also instructs us.