'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?

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for read more

I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

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.

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

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

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.