Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.