Our Merit Quotes
- Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only… — James Goldsmith
- We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. — Jane Austen