Great men always pay deference to greater.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.