Merit Quotes

You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not th...

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly...

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any o...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...

You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not suppos...

There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why shoul...

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an ef...

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.