Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.