Merit

Famous quotes containing the word merit:

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)