Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

The eye is inlet to the soul.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.