Admiration

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought -- and more wonderful.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living