True Merit Quotes
- The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. — Alexander Pope
- Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax