It's hard to judge literary merit..

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le mer….

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors..

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclip….

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all..

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only..

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them..

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ..

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit..

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction ….

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commu….

Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a cl….

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit..

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it..

If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit..

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless..

The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to proces….

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superior….

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits..