A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose music, though liked, is not much
praised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though the
most wretched scraper alive, throws the audience into raptures.
1549
The love of power is an instinct of the human heart.
--_Tacitus._
1550
Power often goes before talent.
--_From the Danish._
1551
When power puts in its plea,
The laws are silent.
--_Massinger._
1552
A partnership with men in power is never safe.
--_Phaedrus._
1553
And (strange to tell) he practised what he preached.
--_Armstrong._
1554
Praise is the best diet for us after all.
--_Sydney Smith._
1555
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
--_Johnson._
1556
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less and glows in every heart.
--_Dr. E. Young._
1557
Most persons are like Themistocles that never found himself so well
contented, as when he heard himself praised.
1558