Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.