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

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.

One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

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.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.