I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus.