Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
All are not hunters who blow the [hunting] horn.
