Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful

Solid pudding against empty praise.

Solid pudding against empty praise.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
[Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
[Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]

Self - praise is no recommendation

Self - praise is no recommendation

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.

Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.