To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you. Anaïs Nin
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. Samuel Johnson
He knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear that I should have a moon to mitigate the deprivation. Anne Brontë
It was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something [...] from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son-and for so long. Ransom Riggs
To withhold truth is to bury gold. Danish Proverb