Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Blame is safer than praise

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.