~Reputation.~--Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it
is, as Mr. Burke calls it, "the cheap defence and ornament of nations,
and the nurse of manly exertions;" it produces more labor and more
talent then twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the
coin of genius; and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it
with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy.--_Sydney
Smith._