"Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue."

"No person will sit with patience to hear any one praised for more than five minutes, but a commentator on others' def…"

"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."

"From sunrise till sunset, may the name of Ezina be praised. People should submit to the yoke of Ezina. Whoever has si…"

"I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, an…"

"He who praises every body, praises nobody."

"Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor e'er can be sincere."

"Praise — actual personal praise— oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near."

"You are pretty,—we know it; and young,—it is true; and rich,—who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagan…"

"It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flattery; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted t…"