#Value Quotes

“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”

“He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.”

“Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.”

“She's good, being gone.”

“Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.”

“I am wealthy in my friends.”

“The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”

“...lest too light winning make the prize light.”

“Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.”

“The prize of all too precious you.”

“Plutus himself,That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,Hath not in nature's mystery more scienceThan I have in this ring.”

“Women are angels, wooing:Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.”

“A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.”

“Our content Is our best having.”

“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.”

“Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings”

“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity”

“But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.”

“My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.”

“The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!”

“O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.”

“Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.”

“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear”

“Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.”

“Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.”

“My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.”

“Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.”

“A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.”

“All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!”

“Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.”

“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.”

“Knowledge is the only elegance.”

“A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.”

“Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.”

“All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.”

“Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”

“He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.”

“Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.”

“Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.”

“We put our love where we have put our labor.”

“Value dwells not in particular will;It holds his estimate and dignityAs well wherein 'tis precious of itselfAs in the prizer.”

“What is aught but as 'tis valued?”

“The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it”

“The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.”

“Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.”

“Beauty within itself should not be wasted.”