Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Languages are the keys of science.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.