If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.