July 16

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, . . . Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles; that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.—I PETER ii, 12.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

SHAKESPEARE.

Slander meets no regard from noble minds, Only the base believe what the base only utter. BELLER.

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived; and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

MONTESQUIEU.

If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart; if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction; make use of both; so shall thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.

FRANCIS QUARLES.

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

HERMANN BOERHAAVE.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

JOSEPH HALL.