He should be praised for climbing; yetThe other man comes always from a heightAnd lives where praise can never get --Beyond your sight.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.

The artist chooses his subject; that is his mode of praising.

Neighbors praise unselfishness because they profit by it.

A well-constituted human being, a ‘happy one’, must perform certain actions and instinctively shrinks from other actions, he transports the order of which he is the physiological representative into his relations with other human beings and with things. In a formula: his virtue is the consequence of his happiness…Everything good is instinct—and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.