If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste

Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

Solid pudding against empty praise.

'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him

M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men.