Slander and detraction can have no influence, can make no impression, upon the righteous Judge above. None to thy prejudice, but a sad and fatal one to their own. Thomas à Kempis.
Slander expires at a good woman's door. Dan. Pr.
Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, 25 both in the slanderer and the person who listens to it. St. Bernard.
Slander lives upon succession; / For ever housed, where it once gets possession. Com. of Errors, iii. 1.
Slander, / Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue / Out-venoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath / Rides on the parting winds, and doth belie / All corners of the world. Cymbeline, iii. 4.
Slander's mark was ever yet the fair; / ... A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. Shakespeare.
Slanderers do not hurt me, because they do not hit me. Socrates.
Slave or free is settled in heaven for a man. 30 Carlyle.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, / But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. Pope.
Slave to silver's but a slave to smoke. Quarles.