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

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. – G. K. Chesterton

When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within. – C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon