There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

—Alexander Pope

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

—Edith Sitwell

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

—W. Somerset Maugham

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

—Xenophon

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

—Eric Hoffer