We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

No one accuses without an underlying notion of punishment and revenge, even when he accuses his fate or himself. All complaint is accusation, all self-congratulation is praise.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.