A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.