The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set read more

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

A compliment is verbal sunshine

A compliment is verbal sunshine

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, read more

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.