Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.