Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of every class: they can find almost everything, have almost everything, provided they bring with them the right kind of money -- admiration.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains . . . But it can put mountains where there are none.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.