merely Quotes

“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”

“We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.”

“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”

“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.”

“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”

“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”

“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”