Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

I praise loudly and I blame softly.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.