Praises from wicked men are reproaches.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity, and the least of it in reality.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Generally we praise only to be praised.