Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.
If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
