When I recieved the Padmabhushan it was a happy moment no doubt, but it was not something I sought desperately to win. I never worked towards the award.

A man’s women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Frege has the merit of … finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

Great modesty often hides great merit.