Eminence Quote by Francis Alexander Durivage

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

— St. Catherine of Siena

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself.…

— Lord Chesterfield

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

— Charles Lamb

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself.

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of…

— Thomas Carlyle

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by…

— Martin Luther

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

— Samuel Johnson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson