To give a full expression to the utmost intelligence, potency, amiability, purity, meritoriousness and majesty that can reside in the capability-rooms of a human soul-would be equivalent to picturing the imaginable or to portraying the infinite, and to do either the one or the other is impossible.
"The Jericho Road"
W. Bion Adkins
Provided that novelty does not degenerate into eccentricity or extravagance, and that clearness and facility of expression march with agreeableness, a composer's meritoriousness is proclaimed in his originality.
"Johann Sebastian Bach"
Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Charles Sanford Terry
Apart from this Christian interpretation, the state of habitual shame will be possible even to the entirely godless sage, who clings firmly to the basic non-responsibility and non-meritoriousness of all action and being.
"Human, All-Too-Human, Part II"
Friedrich Nietzsche