Who said “Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”?

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”

“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”

“And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.”

“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.”

“Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.”

“Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.”

“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.”

“What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”

“Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.”

“He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”