Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.