Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

If you are praised by others, be skeptical of yourself.

Things of the first importance are few; let appreciation be rare.

We find very few people of good sense, except those who are of our own opinion.

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.