Who said “Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”?

“He who praises everybody, praises nobody.”

“The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.”

“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”

“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”

“Their silence is praise enough.”

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”

“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.”

“Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.”

“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”

“What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.”

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”