No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence...

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing. Boerhaave

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more. N. P. Willis

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, 1939

The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child...

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. John Gaule

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write...

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be...

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, “there is not only...