"The power men possess to annoy me I give them."

Emerson.

"Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was—a blameless life."

Cowper.

Flattery

JUNE 9

"Flattery is a false coinage which would have no currency but for our vanity."

La Rochefoucauld.

"If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm."

La Rochefoucauld.