Merit

Famous quotes containing the word merit:

“A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)