A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
William HazlittTo expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
William HazlittA full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.
William Hazlitt