The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enter….

But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer c….

To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the envir….

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own..

Great Modesty often hides great Merit..

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits..

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits..

How can the unknown merit reverence?.

To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and enco….

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its….

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you..

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have..

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the ….

If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It….

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless….

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give..

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all..

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties....

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against….

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery..

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things ….