Quotes About Value

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

your heart] That is your own estate, your own, your very own, --your own and another's. Whatever may go to the moneylenders, don't send that there. Don't mortgage that.

Few men do understand the nature of a woman's heart till years have robbed such understanding of its value.

No doubt arrogance will produce submission; and there are men who take other men at the price those other men put upon themselves.

Love is like any other luxury.  You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Everything smiled on her with gilded dimples, and these were the smiles she valued. As

Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it?—and that this is specially true of a man's own self?

My husband's diamonds were my diamonds," said Lizzie stoutly. "They are family diamonds, Eustace diamonds, heirlooms, — old property belonging to the Eustaces, just like their estates. Sir Florian didn't give 'em away, and couldn't, and wouldn't if he could. Such things ain't given away in that fashion. It's all nonsense, and you must give them up.

Your child! Wouldn't they be kept properly for him, and for the family, if the jewellers had them? I don't believe you care about your child.

your heart] That is your own estate, your own, your very own, --our own and another's. Whatever may go to the moneylenders, don't send that there. Don't mortgage that.

After all," said he, "money is a fine thing." "Very fine, when it is well come by," she answered; "that is, without detriment to the heart or soul.

As yet, he was barely thirty, and had he been able to judge his own case as keenly as he could have judged the case of another, he would have known that a short absence might probably raise his value in the estimation of others rather than lower it. But his personal annoyance was too great to allow of his making such calculations aright.

CHAPTER XIX 'WHO VALUED THE GEESE?

Whether it be a bad life or a good life," said Lady Laura, "you and I understand equally well that no other life is worth having after it. We are like the actors, who cannot bear to be away from the gaslights when once they have lived amidst their glare.

Friends are not to be picked up on the road-side every day; nor are they to be thrown away lightly.

Nor would you take it. There is nothing so comfortable as money, — but nothing so defiling if it be come by unworthily; nothing so comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be allowed to dwell upon it constantly. If a man have enough, let him spend it freely. If he wants it, let him earn it honestly. Let him do something for it, so that the man who pays it to him may get its value.

I hate justice," said Phineas. "I know that justice would condemn me. But love and friendship know nothing of justice. The value of love is that it overlooks faults, and forgives even crimes.

Each had treated the girl as an encumbrance he was to undertake, — at a very great price. But

but there might be a question whether he was not paying too dearly for his whistle. And

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value.

Ma questa non è cultura, è pedanteria, non è intelligenza, ma intelletto, e contro di essa ben a ragione si reagisce. La cultura è una cosa ben diversa. È organizzazione, disciplina del proprio io interiore, è presa di possesso della propria personalità, è conquista di coscienza superiore, per la quale si riesce a comprendere il proprio valore storico, la propria funzione nella vita, i propri diritti e i propri doveri.

It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life.

I know it is so. What dear-bought treasured certainty that was.