Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.