Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.
Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.