Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common read more

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great read more

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared read more

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Where there are no women there are no good manners