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

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.

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

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.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, "false to point of innocence", is far above the ape - regarding Christians, a well-known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment