I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.
You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.
There is no protection against slander.
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
