Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.
Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.
I take every job on its merits.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former prosecutor, I prosecuted antitrust cases civilly. And I can say that antitrust investigations merit searching, penetrating scrutiny and investigation. That's what we need here.
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.
It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.
There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors. . . are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.