~Calumny.~--Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and
you give it the appearance of truth.--_Tacitus._
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts with
greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like him, rides upon a
poisoned arrow.--_Colton._
~Cant.~--The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply
cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.--_Swift._
There is such a thing as a peculiar word or phrase cleaving, as it were,
to the memory of the writer or speaker, and presenting itself to his
utterance at every turn. When we observe this, we call it a cant word or
a cant phrase.--_Paley._
~Caution.~--Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss
for the engines to play a little on our own. Better to be despised for
too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a
security.--_Burke._
~Censure.~--Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves.--_Juvenal._
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an
opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their
virtues.--_Hazlitt._
Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest
mountains.--_Balthasar Gracian._
~Chance.~--There must be chance in the midst of design; by which we mean
that events which are not designed necessarily arise from the pursuit of
events which are designed.--_Paley._