Words are the only things that last for ever. - William Hazlitt

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment, so that, in short, the public ear is at the mercy of the first impudent pretender who chooses to fill it with noisy assertions, or false surmises, or secret whispers. What is said by one is heard by all; the supposition that a thing is known to all the world makes all the world believe it, and the hollow repetition of a vague report drowns the 'still, small voice' of reason.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.