Highest Merit Quotes
- Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier… — Abraham Lincoln
- Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet… — Nathaniel Hawthorne