There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal read more

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their read more

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and read more

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that read more

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.