There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down. Sheridan Le Fanu
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. Cicero