I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conventionalities... I mean, each woman's right to her liberty.

I think that each case has to be decided on its merits, and the merits of this application have to have been outstanding to weather all the storms that have been presented. It's been a long and expensive battle, and I doubt that anyone would be encouraged to want to take on such a battle unless they were confident that they too had as excellent a plan as this one.

I want to be judged on my own merits.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.