If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence;… — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
