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

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.