Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.

There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.