Quotes About Value

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.