"Ich hulte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben möchte."

"That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time."

"Ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others, more determined to conquer their hostility o…"

"I hold it as certain, that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself."

"And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word."

"A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd."

"I do not myself believe much in the comforting theory that posterity is always in the right, and that the reputation …"

"How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!"

"A man may be reputed an able man this year, and yet be a beggar the next: it is a misfortune that happens to many men…"

"They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem."