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. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. – Thomas à Kempis