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

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

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