Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

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

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.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.