Pastoral Resources

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

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

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

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.

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

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