Pastoral Resources

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

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.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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

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

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