We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. - William Hazlitt

We all wear some disguise — make some professions — use some artifice to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom, though we may endeavour to keep some others that we think less to our credit as much as possible in the background…

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.