E monde récompense plus souvent les apparances du mérite que le mérite même.
La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions.
URRAN told an anecdote of an Irish parliament man, who was boasting in the House of Commons of his attachment to trial by jury. "Mr. Speaker, by the trial by jury I have lived, and by the blessing of God, with the trial by jury I will die!" Curran sat near him, and whispered audibly, "What, Jack! do you mean to be hanged?"
Crabb Robinson, Diary.
HEY roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—
They roused him with mustard and cress—
They roused him with jam and judicious advice—
They set him conundrums to guess.
Lewis Carroll, Hunting of the Snark.