“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”
“Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.”
“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”
“When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good deeds and the love of others.”
“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”