I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence their character their knowledge reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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.