others, how
patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no
injury, while the other may be their ruin.--LOWELL.

Good things should be praised.--SHAKESPEARE.

He hurts me most who lavishly commends.--CHURCHILL.

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less and glows in every heart.
--YOUNG.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise
expectation or animate enterprise.--DR. JOHNSON.

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is
himself deserving of praise.--FROM THE LATIN.

He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what
you have.--MANUEL.

Thou may'st be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than
when thou speakest in presence.--FULLER.

Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
--PLUTARCH.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he
condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.--HARE.

Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face.
--STEELE.

Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.--PSALM 150:6.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which
distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of
sycophants and admiration of fools.--STEELE.

PRAYER.--The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for
a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
--SENECA.

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith.
Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
--SPURGEON.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as
pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your life;
every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon
your prayers as a short method of duty and salvation only, but as a
perpetual monition of duty; by what we require of God we see what He
requires of us.--JEREMY TAYLOR.

How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our
petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful
to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of
them.--COWPER.

We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we
pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that