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One should examine oneself for a very long time be

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One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habi

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just

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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my o

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I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents.

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Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

It is a good divine that follows his own instruct

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It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself,

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Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocris

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Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay

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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a d

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All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

All reformers, however strict their social consci

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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than s

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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is o

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Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it

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Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves.

That which we call sin in others is experiment fo

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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

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