Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquillity of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
Get a prayer book in your hand and stand betwixt two churchmen.
Don’t judge of Mens Wealth or Piety, by their Sunday Appearances.
Be happy, but be so through piety.[Soyez heureux mais soyez-le par la piété.]
