I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
-Will Rogers
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.