Quotes about Value

she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardly call a woman wise who does that.

No one thinks of your appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality

When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.

The master was odd. I was kind and just to my dependants, but I excited in them a shrinking, half-contemptuous pity; for this class of men and women are but slightly determined in their estimate of others by general considerations, or even experience, of character. They judge of persons as they judge of coins, and value those who pass current at a high rate.

We see human heroism broken into units and say, this unit did little—might as well not have been. But in this way we might break up a great army into units; in this way we might break the sunlight into fragments, and think that this and the other might be cheaply parted with.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

Gazing at the grandeur of heavenly glory transforms our value system. In

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.