Praise is the best diet for us after all.—Sydney Smith.
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.—Washington Allston.
Damn with faint praise.—Pope.
Counsel is not so sacred a thing as praise, since the former is only useful among men, but the latter is for the most part reserved for the gods.—Pythagoras.
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.—Broadhurst.
One good deed, dying tongueless, slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.—Shakespeare.
Prayer.—The Lord's Prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.—Wellington.
Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered.—Shakespeare.
'Tis heaven alone that is given away; 'tis only God may be had for the asking.—Lowell.
Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning and evening. Let our days begin and end with God.—Channing.