“It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.”

“Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.”

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

“Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.”

“Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.”

“Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.”