“A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.” — Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th- century U.S. president (letter to Edward Livingston, 1825)

“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” — Albert Camus, Nobel Prize-winning, 20th-century French “existentialist” novelist

“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.” — Kenneth Tynan, 20th-century English art historian and critic

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” — Cicero (Marcus Tullius), Roman orator, philosopher and statesman

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 19th-century American poet

“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.” — Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 19th-century American humorist, author and journalist