We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Heroes themselves had fallen behind!
--Whene'er he went before.

Heroes themselves had fallen behind!
--Whene'er he went before.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed read more

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man. It read more

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at
all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love
those whom we admire.

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love
those whom we admire.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

For fools admire, but me of sense approve.

For fools admire, but me of sense approve.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.