William Hazlitt Merit Quotations

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.