This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to read more

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.

If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, read more

'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, in anything,
But so much money as 't will bring?

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.