Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.
Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.