If a man thinks well of you, make his thought come true.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

Always we like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word "admire" then means "marvel at".

It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

We always like those who admire us.