Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
William HazlittThe most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
William HazlittThe assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
William Hazlitt