The praises of enemies are always to be suspected. A man of honor will not permit himself to be flattered by them, except when they are given after the cessation of hostilities.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Persisting in a charge which one does not know to be true, is simply malicious slander.

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than their virtues.