APPRECIATION

Alcott, Amos Bronson
A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Barrow, Isaac
We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Bruyere, Jean de la
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

Carlyle, Thomas
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.

Channing, William Ellery
We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

Charles Auchester
To feel exquisitely is the lot of very many; but to appreciate belongs to the few.—Only one or two, here and there, have the blended passion and understanding which, in its essence, constitute worship.

Colton, Caleb C.
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.

Edwards, Tryon
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament.—What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

Eliot, George
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Fuller, Margaret
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Greville, Lord
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior, to them.

Hazlitt, William
We are very much what others think of us.—The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house.—In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

Joubert, Joseph
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.

Lavater, John Caspar
He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Montaigne, Michel E. de
Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste  them.

Necker, Madame
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Pascal, Blaise
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality.—Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc dela
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

Sales, Saint Francis de
We must never undervalue any person.—The workman loves not to have his work despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is his work.

Thackeray, William Makepeace
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.