Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.

Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
[Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
[Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

A eulogist of past times.
[Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]

A eulogist of past times.
[Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.