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.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.